Clueful is an iOS privacy monitoring app from Bitdefender. It offers a searchable database of iPhone and iPad apps and tells you how those apps store and use your personal information. Originally an iOS app, Clueful was booted by Apple from the App Store (for reasons unknown), but now you can access Clueful on the web.

The web interface is designed to look just like an iPhone app. You can search for an app to find out how the app treats your privacy (e.g., if it tracks your location, uploads your UDID, has access to your address book, and more). For each entry, there's a quick overview, a bit more detailed description of the settings, and a place for users to add comments.

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Clueful also lists the top privacy-offending apps, those recently analyzed, and also the current top free apps.

With hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store, Clueful can't really cover every single one, but it looks like the most popular ones are covered. Also, while the iOS version that was yanked had a few more robust features, like showing you a list of your installed apps and separating the good privacy settings (encrypting your data or using an anonymous identifier) from the bad, Clueful's webapp version is a pretty helpful tool if you care about your data privacy.